Sliced bread package



July 28, 1931.

O. F. ROHWEDDER SLICED BREAD PACKAGE Filed Nov. 14, 1928 Patented July 28, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE OTTO F. ROHWEDDER, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO MAC-ROE SALES & MFG. COMPANY, 01 DAVENPORT, IOWA, A'CORPORATION OF DELAWARE SLICED BREAD PACKAGE Application filed November 14, 1928. Serial No. 319,237.

My improvement relates to means for retaining the slices of a sliced loaf of bread in the same relative position occupied by them before they were sliced.

5 The objects of my invention are to rovide a support for a sliced loaf of bread in combination with adjustable means for holding the slices in their original position while upon such support.

I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvement applied to a sliced loaf of bread; Figure 2 is a. perspective view of my improvement applied to the remaining portion of a sliced loaf of bread after a part thereof has been removed; and

Figure 3 is a detail elevation of the left end of Figure lshowing the method of securing the paper retaining band'to the base.

My device comprises a base or support, 2,

for a sliced loaf of bread, 1, and this base is preferably composed of fairly stiff pasteboard or strawboard, but thin strips of wood or other supporting means may be used when desired. A retaining strip or band, 3, is pasted or otherwise suitably secured to the left end of the support, 2, and is preferably composed of waxed paper. In the drawings I have shown this strip, 3, as somewhat narrower than the loaf of bread, but it may be formed of the same width as the loaf of bread if desired and when so formed, will be a little more efiicient to prevent drying-out than the narrower strip.

In applying my device to a sliced loaf of bread, the retainin stri 3, is first pasted to the support, 2, at t e le thand end as shown at 3, and is laid out lengthwise on the support, 2.

The sliced loaf of bread isthen placed upon the support, 2, and the portion of the retaining strip, 3, lying thereon and the free end of the retaining stri is then raised and the retainin strip, 3, rawn along and over the loaf 0 bread, as shown in Figure 1, and the free end, 3", of the retaining strip, 3, may be secured under the end of the loaf and sup- 50 port, 2, as shown in Figures 1 and 2.

y In cases where a ortion of the sliced loaf has been removed, t 1e retaining strip, 3, may be drawn up and over the remainder of the loaf as shown in Figure2, and 'in case an shrinkage occurs from drying-out, the slac 5; ma be taken up by tightening the strip, 3, an when so tightened, the weight of the loaf resting upon the free end, 3", will hold the slices closely together. It is obvious that the support, 2, and the strip, 3, may be applied to the sliced loaf of bread before it is wrapped, and when so applied, will act to stiffen the loaf and prevent dislod ement of any of the slices during such han ling of the wrapped loaves as takes place in loading and unloading the bread from bread wagons and other- Wise handling it in the usual course of trade.

It is obvious that the shape and proportions of the'support, 2, and of the retaining strip, 3, may be varied to a considerable extent without departing from the spirit of my invention and additional retaining means may be added if desired.

I claim:

A bread loaf package comprising,.in combination, a supporting tray consisting of a support and a flexible strip secured at one end to t e upper surface of said support, and a baked loaf of bread divided into a plurality of uniform slices, said sliced loaf being positioned on said strip and support, said strip being extended over the top and ends of said sliced loaf and secured to the lower surface of said support at the same end to which the first mentioned end of said strip is secured to 86 thereby hold said slices in contiguous presliced form while said loaf is being and after it is wrapped.

In testimony whereof he aflixes his signature.

OTTO F. ROHWEDDER. 

